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Medicaid Expansion Linked to Better Cancer Survival at 5 Years Residents of rural, high-poverty areas derived greatest benefit versus non-expansion states

States that expanded Medicaid coverage had significantly better cancer survival among patients in rural and high-poverty areas as compared with non-expansion states

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Trump’s Tylenol warning cited a Harvard dean’s research. But a judge called his shifting conclusions ‘unreliable’ A Harvard dean whose work was cited as justification for curtailing Tylenol use provided what a judge called 'unreliable' expert testimony against the drug’s maker

"Once they adjusted for the contribution of genetics, the association between acetaminophen and autism virtually disappeared"

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GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy on Trump and RFK Jr’s claims about Tylenol and autism:

“Talk to your OB about it. But secondly, I was talking to a woman, she goes, ‘Oh, this is great. Two men telling me not to take the only thing I can take when my back's hurting and I'm pregnant.’”

#Science 2025 style

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America's Doctor Shortage Is Getting Worse. Abortion Bans Are to Blame. Why America's future doctors are avoiding abortion-ban states.

Not 'news' to anyone in medicine but thought it was worth keeping on the radar and perhaps putting it plainly for the public.

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When the doctor shortage is personal Eight years after surviving a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, the author urges Congress to pass legislation to help fund training for more doctors.

The U.S. faces a doctor shortage, partly due to outdated Medicare caps on residency slots, crucial for training physicians. The bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 (S. 2439/H.R. 4731) would help. Len’s story shows what’s at stake. www.aamc.org/news/when-do...

The study is believed to be the first national-level analysis after the ruling, and its findings raise concerns about the future diversity of the healthcare workforce. @atulgrovermd.bsky.social

Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.

Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t... via @statnews.com

The White Stripes - We're Going to be Friends

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for those old enough to remember the "cornhusker kickback" (in a bill that reduced the deficit...)

Alaska Allotment/Arrangement/Allowance ?

Non-CONUS Nest Egg?

"New York has a population about the size of Israel, except compared to them, we are practically a utopia, where people of very different backgrounds live peacefully (if grumpily) side by side"

NIH halts grant terminations ‘effective immediately,’ email says The National Institutes of Health is halting further terminations of research grants, an internal email shows

NIH halts grant terminations ‘effective immediately,’ email says.

Scoop from @aniloza.bsky.social

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5 Takeaways from Health Insurers' New Pledge to Improve Prior Authorization Trump administration officials applauded the insurance industry for its willingness to change, but also acknowledged limitations of the agreement.

"3. Insurance companies are already supposed to be doing some of these things."

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Jasmine feels your pain

Federal judge rules that hundreds of NIH grant terminations were 'void and illegal' A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”

BREAKING: federal judge overrules hundreds of NIH grant terminations

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JAMA Health Forum @jamahealthforum.bsky.social - the health policy journal of the JAMA Network - is now on BlueSky!! #MedSky #ARM25

Job alert: My colleague Ari Ne'eman is looking for an RA (to be based in the Boston area) to help with some health policy research focused on Medicaid and people with disabilities

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The "Big Bill" (H.R.1) would raise the uninsured by nearly 60% in the next ten years, wiping out most of the gains since the ACA The uninsured in the U.S. dropped by about 40% since the passage of the ACA; projected effects of legislation would raise uninsured 60%, nearly wiping out all the gains since the ACA was implemented

The "Big Bill" (H.R.1) would raise the uninsured by nearly 60% in the next ten years, wiping out most of the gains since the ACA
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10.9 million people would lose health insurance under Trump’s tax cut bill, CBO projects 'Big, beautiful bill' would result in 10.9 million people losing health insurance, primarily Medicaid.

"Altogether, 16 million people could become uninsured over a decade, the same number who were at risk of losing their insurance when Republicans attempted to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017, CBO said."

we've come full circle

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America is running out of doctors. Congress must step up The U.S. can’t afford to lose more doctors. Expanding international students’ access to American medical schools is a good place to start.

"The physician shortage is already here. But what we do now determines how dire this issue will become." www.statnews.com/2025/06/04/u... via @statnews.com

"They're not work requirements, they're paperwork requirements...

if you're an Uber driver, an independent contractor, what does that requirement look like?"

Good questions on #Medicaid from
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Canada Wants to Kill 400 Ostriches. Kennedy and Dr. Oz Want to Save Them.

“We believe significant scientific knowledge may be garnered from following the ostriches in a controlled environment,” Mr. Kennedy said in a letter to the head of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/w...

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Opinion | Trump is destroying 100 years of competitive advantage in 100 days Cuts to research and attacks on universities are handing global leadership to China.

“competition and freedom created the modern American scientific establishment, the most successful in human history.”

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Analysis | RFK Jr.’s absurd statistic on the spike in chronic diseases in the U.S. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the percentage of Americans with chronic diseases has gone up 20 times in six decades. That makes no sense.

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“He’s said it enough that the figures have started to creep into search results of AI models on chronic diseases in the 1960s.”

RFK Jr.’s absurd statistic on the spike in chronic diseases in the U.S.

Tariffs on China Aren’t Likely to Rescue Battered U.S. P.P.E. Industry The few domestic companies that still make protective gear for health care workers have clamored for federal intervention. But they worry President Trump’s trade war with China won’t help.

"China now produces more than 90 percent of the medical gear worn by American health care workers."

"Only five of the 107 companies created during the pandemic are still making masks and gloves"

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